The next episode of The PCI Network is all about putting together a winning proposal. Lou Chiarella, Director and Faculty at PCI, shares three tips to help you craft a winning proposal. Mr. Chiarella is an attorney in the Washington, D.C. area with 20 years of...

For as long as this writer can remember, the Government Accountability Office (“GAO”) has hewed to a hard and fast rule about amendments to solicitations: an offeror’s failure to acknowledge a material amendment makes the proposal (or bid) unacceptable and the...

It goes without saying that offerors should carefully read the entire solicitation before they prepare their offer. But how many really do that? And even if they read the entire solicitation, do they always follow the instructions precisely? A good example of...

A final decision on a claim by a contracting officer is a jurisdictional requirement for the Court of Federal Claims or a Board of Contract Appeals to consider an appeal of a contractor’s claim. Absent such a decision, neither the Court nor a Board will have...

This article is the second in a series about mistakes in missing deadlines. The first covered deadlines in protests, and this article discusses deadlines in contract administration and claims. For both, missing deadlines can result in very serious consequences to the...

During the Civil War, at the famous Andersonville Prison, on the inside of the stockade and twenty feet from it, there was a deadline established, over which no prisoner was allowed to go, day or night, under penalty of being shot. After the Civil War, deadlines were...

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